Busy, Yet Pretty - Reset Your Life Today (No Need to Wait for January)

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

It’s time to wake up and press the reset button. Jadyn Hailey walks you through a gentle, practical guide to starting fresh—right now, not next month or next year. Whether you’re stuck in a slump, craving clarity, or ready to rediscover yourself, this episode gives you simple rituals, mindset shifts, and micro-steps to begin rebuilding the life you want. Pour a matcha latte, breathe, and give yourself permission to begin again today.Become your own dream girl with me!! :- Instagram:  Jadyn's Instagram & Busy, Yet Pretty Instagram- Busy, Yet Pretty Groupchat- Tiktok: @fairyjadyn- Jadyn's Amazon Storefront- Jadyn's Closet- focus on growing your business ⁠⁠⁠Shopify⁠⁠⁠-Head to drinkag1.com/PRETTY to get a FREE Welcome Kit, including a bottle of Vitamin D and free AG1 Travel Packs when you first subscribe!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello, hello, hello, hello, my love. Welcome back to the Busy Yet Pretty Podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Haley. I hope you had a lovely weekend and are feeling good and prepared for the new week. I first off want to say, I have been loving all the stories and TikToks and Instagram posts. You guys have been tagging me in with the show. I always love reposting them. It just is so cute to see how you listen to the episodes.

But anyways, I'm so happy. I love Halloween. I was a mouse, like from the book, if you give a mouse a cookie. I feel like only some people know of that book, but it just is like a children's book. I thought it was a cute Halloween idea. But anyways, I love Halloween, but I am ready to be done with fall now since I really love Christmas and like the cozy winter feeling. So I'm very excited now we're getting into winter despite the weather being literally 87 degrees out. It has been so hot.

And I have never seen snow, which is just a random fact I wanted to throw out there. but something I do want to do is just get some bit of cold weather here. I'm just over the hot weather. So if you have cold weather where you're at, let's please trade. But anyways, I hope you have been doing amazing. I know we're moving on to winter, but let me know if you're on listening through Spotify, comment what you were for Halloween. Just because I love hearing what other people were for Halloween

and just seeing those costume ideas for the following year, I'll literally write it down in my notes app for good ideas. for the following year. But back to winter. I feel like today's episode is perfect for that winter motivation. I feel like something last year was trending was the winter arc.

This is a perfect recap episode for the winter if you are excited to just get that motivation going. So I'm really excited to hear what you think of this episode. A little brief update on what's been going on. I think if you have been following me on my socials, you kind of know the health stuff is sort of getting in a better direction of trying to figure out what I have and what's going on.

My rheumatologist is leaning towards me, towards me having HEDS, or like hypermobility, which has been causing me my issues as well as the soninomia and potentially pots. So getting all of that tested and figured out, and we'll still give you guys updates. But in the meantime, I've been trying to touch grass. I love going outside lately. I've been loving just getting that fresh air, something I've been loving doing, which is definitely a current obsession right now is gardening. And I'm not like getting the shovel and getting in there dirty yet, but I am.

I need to get like a little flower bed type of thing that I can actually start gardening some cute little herbs. But right now I just have been like keeping up with watering my lemon and lime trees. And I also have an orange tree, which hasn't grown anything yet. But the lemon trees grow weekly new lemons. And I'm hoping to make it a really big tree. So that has been really nice. And I also have been loving watching Gilmore Girls lately. I finally started Gilmore Girls.

And I think I mentioned this a little while back, but I started it in the beginning of fall and have been watching it since every single night. I love it so much. I'm on episode four. I want to know what team you are if you've watched it so far. And I just got into the part where it introduced Logan. So if you know, you know, I'm just going to get off of that topic

if you haven't watched Gilmore Girls. but so far love that show but anyways i'm just so excited to begin transitioning into winter and just start planning my gift list of course we all love a like wish list like a christmas wish list i also love my like my favorite part of christmas in the holidays it's planning to give like what am i giving to people i already have so many gifts bought for people just because i love it and I think it's one of the best parts of the holidays, just giving. So that's something I've been doing and I'm so excited about. Anyways, let's get into today's episode to get that motivation going.

That will most definitely get us out of any slump that we have going on at the moment. We have all been in a little slump and we have just been kind of, you know, maybe off of routine. We set these big goals in the beginning of the year. And then when it gets to the end of the year, we are just over it. and we are ready to just have the new year start again. So we have a fresh start and we just can hit the reset button. But if you think about this, why wait until January 1st to start and make progress? These colder months that you usually reserve for doing nothing,

use your time wisely and do something that actually is going to move you in a positive direction. Rather than just awaiting January 1st to start fresh. You can start fresh at any time, no matter the circumstances. So it's officially time you hit the reset button, start fresh, enter your winter arc, and how you can get out of a slump and finish the year off strong. If you don't know what the winter arc is, I honestly did not know what it was until a few days ago, but it's a 90-day challenge starting October 1st to the end of the year, being all the colder, slower months, and instead of just hibernating, this would be your time to dial in, work hard, and make progress in those slower months. Personally, for my winter arc, I'm putting a little twist to it and not specifically doing the 90-day challenge

where every day I have a set routine or workout that I have to hit, but rather sending myself more structured schedules and having small requirements to hit throughout the days, but still allowing that flexibility for the colder months just because I do think it's important to embrace slowness in the season. But you hitting the reset button right now and not waiting to January 1st is going to be so, beneficial to you because you're going to have three months of progress that you weren't going to have if you had just planned to hibernate in all the winter months. So it's time you set some healthy habits and recognize that what you've been doing that is not serving you. Entering your winter arc is you having your reset now during these typical months of hibernation. But again, don't be hard on yourself. This is all about becoming the best version of you, not running yourself to the ground and

having no energy or happiness. So don't get me wrong, embrace those slow months and embrace hibernation, but embrace it to a point and don't let it be your entire fall and winter sitting inside under the blanket in bed all day. It's time you become and feel a better version of you and not wait until the new year to start. So enough going off on a tangent, I think you understand now, but let's begin talking about the first way you can start your reset and moving in a positive direction. Being I can't be the only one who has this like dream item of theirs that they always see whether it's a bag, a sweater, a top and you're like, I just need that, but it's like sold out

everywhere. That's me with this one vintage Duny and Birk bag. I literally was looking everywhere for it and I somehow found one on a poshmark. But not just one. I found multiple of them at such a good price and I was like, wait, this is just too good to be true. So if you know me, you know I am a poshmark girl. Poshmark is a marketplace where you can list and sell. as well as buy new items vintage pieces gently used luxury pieces they really just have it all and i feel like there's no better time to go on poshmark now everyone's cleaning out their closet and listing good things get in bed get cozy and go in poshmark to add to your new spring wardrobe new deals and sales are listed every day so don't wait download the poshmark app and use code busy when you sign up to get

ten dollars off your first purchase or shop now at poshmark dot com slash busy and get ten dollars off your first purchase that's P-O-S-H-M-A-K dot com slash busy. I can't be the only one who has this like dream item of theirs that they always see whether it's a bag, a sweater, a top and you're like, I just need that, but it's like sold out everywhere. That's me with this one vintage Duny and Burke bag. I literally was looking everywhere for it and I somehow found one on a posh mark. But not just one.

I found multiple of them at such a good price and I was like, wait, this is just too good to be true. So if you know me, you know I am a Poshmark girl. Poshmark is a marketplace where you can list and sell, as well as buy. New items, vintage pieces, gently used, luxury pieces. They really just have it all. And I feel like there's no better time to go on Poshmark now. Everyone's cleaning out their closet and listing good things.

Get in bed, get cozy, and go on Poshmark to add to your new spring wardrobe. New deals and sales are listed every day, so don't wait. Download the Poshmark app and use code busy when you sign up to get $10 off your first purchase or shop now at poshmark.com slash busy and get $10 off your first purchase. That's P-O-S-H-M-A-R-K.com slash busy. Mindful of consumption. It is so easy to just sit and endlessly scroll and become obsessed with certain media or obsessed with a certain show or honestly just become obsessed with scrolling. Trust me, I am so guilty of it and we all are. It's all temporary happiness and it's good to get those little spurts in and scroll on TikTok and scroll on things.

But there's a point where you have to put a halt to it and remind yourself that this is only giving you temporary happiness and it's not serving you for your longevity. So as funny as this may sound, you have to connect and ground with yourself again. You have to remember what real life is and not just what this artificial blue light is you're looking at. Sometimes grounding with yourself and remembering the point of life, maybe you literally just go outside and touching grass or going outside and just breathing the fresh crisp air or it could be you picking up a pen and paper and start drawing when you are so tied and addicted to your phone anything is better than that and you just need a detach from it you have to cut the little umbilical cord and set

yourself free from this obsession of just scrolling and the best way to start doing that is have an unfollowing spree you need to follow and consume only things that are going to benefit you and put you in a positive mindset so unfollow people who you don't actually care about looking at their stuff and follow people that who you just follow because you want their body or unfollow people that leave you feeling down and not only that have a detox on your phone and apps so start deleting all the apps you don't need delete photos that you don't need and just have a nice entire phone detox now when having this reset I want you to remember not to go all in or full force because when you go in with the all or nothing mindset, your progress is going to only last so long because you're going to want to quit.

It's going to become too draining, too mentally exhausting, and you're going to be unhappy. So the best thing to when hitting the reset button and starting fresh is go in with a positive mindset and realizing that consistency is better than perfection. Remember, this is not a race. Our goal is progress, and progress comes from consistency. It's very important that you prioritize your personal growth with this winter arc seasons, because of course career growth is great, but you have to remember that your career is not your life and it's not you.

Your career does not define you. You were not born to just think about school and work 24-7. So it's time you invest in yourself and use this season to prioritize personal growth. If you're someone who has a little harder time with getting motivated and staying consistent, go reach out to one of your friends or reach out to someone who maybe would want to do this challenge. with you or not even a challenge but just get this motivated mindset with you because that's going to help you guys motivate each other and support each other and most importantly when you're doing it with someone it's going to help you be held accountable okay this one is a classic but i want to

be clear on this you need to prioritize your routines you need to drop your unhealthy habits that you have that could be staying up late on your phone or waking up late by snoozing your alarm a million times or putting self-care last. Those are all unhealthy habits that you need to let go of. When people say, I don't have time. Yes, I understand you may have a really busy schedule, but I can guarantee you there is a fraction of that time that is being used by doing something that,

whether you're procrastinating, actually doing the work, and going on your phone, or doing something that doesn't really matter or you don't really care about, but you're just trying to fill your time. So do you, it feels like you're really busy. So you need to remember that you need to use your time wisely. Keep your future self in mind. So use your time wisely with actions that your future self is going to thank you for. If you're maybe not really sure of what your unhealthy habits are or healthy habits that you have are or currently look like in your life, get a sheet of paper, draw a line down

the middle and have one side be unhealthy habits and one side be healthy habits. Sit down with your matcha and have this list in front of you and do not touch your phone and dial in and categorize on one side, unhealthy habits that you currently have that you're going to drop and unhealthy habits that do not serve you whatsoever. And on the other side, categorize habits that are healthy and positive to you that you currently have that you're going to continue and habits that you want to incorporate into your life moving forward. That's going to allow you to see what habits you should leave in the past and which ones you should adapt moving forward. When it comes to personal growth, something that is so important you do is maximize your skills and hobbies. We get

so caught up on school and work and stress and we forget about random activities and skills that we have that we would thrive in doing or that we enjoy for you that may be gardening or playing dress up playing chess or organizing building things or crafting whatever it is that could be in the back of your mind that you used to enjoy when you were younger or skills that you have now that you just haven't been able to maximize i want you to schedule out time every day To touch based with those interests, even if it's 5 to 10 minutes, that is better than nothing. Another thing that you need to incorporate when having this reset is get fresh air every day. Preferably in the morning, walk outside, get some crisp fresh air, maybe sit outside with your coffee or do some yoga or journal outside, or even go on a little color walk.

But prioritize getting fresh air throughout the day. Okay, you may dread to hear this, but you have to get yourself some movement throughout the day. I understand working out is hard and getting up and starting it is hard. Trust me this week or this past two weeks I've had such a hard time getting back into my workout routine since I've been off schedule. But I promise you once you take that first step, the first step is just getting started. That's the hardest step. But once you start, you've overcome the hardest step. It's hard to get started, but your future self is going to thank you.

Even 10 to 15 minutes a day is better than nothing at all. And remember, there's many different forms of working out that could be walking, going on a run, that could be doing jumping jacks, an ab workout, lifting. Whatever you enjoy doing the most is a perfect workout and you can always try new things in the future. Make your workouts enjoyable. Lay out your clothes the night before. Put a cute pink bow in your hair for your workout and get your cute cucumber water. Do things to make you feel excited to workout. Now for your reset moving forward, it is time. for you to start experiencing in life. Experience and get out of your comfort zone. And most importantly,

be uncomfortable. When you're comfortable, you're not growing. Every time you push yourself to do something uncomfortable, it's so much easier the next time. This could be you having a solo date or raising your hand in class or complimenting a stranger or even wearing a more outgoing outfit. Nobody knows when you feel uncomfortable only when you portray it to somebody else. So the next time you're uncomfortable, Only you knows. It's time for you to get a planner or Google Calendar and start managing your time better. Time management will save you and allow you to achieve more by doing less. Another thing with starting fresh is you need to learn how to be okay with bumps in the road.

And you need to learn how to cope with any setbacks. Listen, you're not going to make it to the gym every day. You're not going to achieve everything on your to do list every day. And some days you're going to have extra homework or things to do. going to have setbacks, but gather tools and know how to move forward and push through when that happens. And again, this is personally what would work best for you, so for you that could be meditating, or light a candle, get your macha, and sit down and dial it and take one step at a time. Like I said, in the very beginning of the year, we have our goals and we know what we want, but it is so important that you don't wait until January 1st and start now and rewrite your goals. The goals we had in the beginning of the year

maybe are different than what our goals are now. And remember, don't write too many goals down. Don't make them too far off or out of the ballpark. I am someone who says, shoot for your goals no matter how big they may be, and I do believe that. But you have to do them in increments. You have to make them small in bite size so you can get past each one and move to the next.

Because sometimes when we just have all these big goals written down, it's way too overwhelming, and we end up just not starting at all. So write down your priority goals and break each down and start fresh from there. Another important thing you need to start doing is start managing your money. I understand this day and age can be very hard to increase your income while paying for rent and supporting your livelihood. But it's very important that you reflect on your past spendings and moving forward, ask yourself, is this item I'm purchasing really something I need? Or do I really just like the action of buying things?

Don't get me wrong. I am someone who says money comes back but time doesn't so use your money But sometimes we buy useless things that we don't need and all that money could have added up where you could have saved that money You put it in your savings and put that money towards something more bigger and better that you've been wanting For your reset like I said personal growth is what we're focusing on so if you have any unheeled parts of you or just need to talk to someone I really recommend seeking support with therapy Many therapists are covered by insurance, so find one that works best for you. Or if you're not wanting to take the therapy route, just allow yourself to fully sit with yourself when you're having, you know, negative thoughts or down thoughts. And don't try to kill those thoughts with going on your phone or doing something else and trying to put a band-aid on it.

Sit with yourself. Allow yourself to soak in what you're feeling because hitting it head first is going to be what makes you be able to get over it. or not even necessarily get over it, but start to heal. And if you're thinking right now, Jaden, I want a more intense challenge and I am ready for a real reset. You can do the winter arc challenge, the typical normal way, which is a much more disciplined, and you can create that whatever works best for you. So it's a 90-day challenge, like I said, where you're having a daily workout, journaling, eating healthy, every day, waking up early, taking cold showers. Personally, I prefer more balance in my life and I want to allow flexibility.

So I don't necessarily love the 90-day Winter Arc Challenge the typical way, but I'm going to instead prioritize and have a structured schedule and goals I want to meet every day, but without being too disciplined these slower, cozy year months. For your reset, sometimes it takes more than journaling or a workout to find yourself again. Now that you're having a reset, maybe for you getting your nails done or doing your nails or getting a facial, and your hair done. It's the perfect jumpstart to starting fresh. I can't lie, of course, working out and cleaning out my phone, everything like that does make me feel really restarted and fresh, but nothing makes me feel like the perfect jumpstart than cleaning up my nails,

doing my hair, and start doing some face masks. Also, a good rule to remember when entering this new version of you is, if you are blessed, which you are, bless others. Giving is beautiful. Whatever for that may be, giving is beautiful. That could be leaving your neighbor a gift at their door or volunteering or buying the stranger behind you their food. So start incorporating giving more into your life. Now something else that is very important is start saying yes to more things that are beneficial that are outside of your comfort zone. Doing that is going to push you in the right direction and also start saying no to what dreams your energy. It's important to be aware of how we feel after being with certain people and how we feel after doing certain activities and you will start to

determine what is an energy drainer and what's an energy giver something you should do is lean more into motivational books with this reset i am a self-help book girl and i have all of my favorites listed over my amazon storefront but it's very important that you replace some of your time that's on ticot scrolling with reading a book or doing something else and even if you do want to be on your phone but you're used to just scrolling on TikTok or Instagram, replace that time with Pinterest. Like I said, Pinterest is a great way to motivate yourself because you're seeing that visual inspo and it allows you to leave your eye on the prize. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and really thought about how this is the perfect time for you to have your reset. It is never too late to hit the reset button and don't wait until January 1st

to get started. So start new, make progress and live with balance. If you enjoyed this episode, please share over your Instagram and your TikTok and tag me so I can repost it. I'm not kidding, you guys are my best friends, and I love just chatting with you guys in my DMs when I see everything you guys tag me in. I am so grateful for all your guys' support and all the sweet love. This is your time to become the best version of you, and I am so beyond proud of you. You guys always share your success stories over Apple Podcast,

and it is just so beautiful to see, and you guys should be truly so proud of yourself. But anyways, go get yourself a matcha, get yourself a coffee, take yourself on a walk, think about how it's going to be starting forward and pressing this reset button. It is never too late to press the reset button and do not forget to stay a busy yet pretty.